Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail

by Jennifer Raab

Frederic Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention to detail, yet the significance of this pictorial approach has remained largely unexplored. In this important reconsideration of Church's works, Jennifer Raab offers the first sustained examination of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300208375
• ISBN13: 9780300208375
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 10.7"